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October 3 to 11 The 10th Lorca Ancient Music Festival

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Seven concerts of music from the Late Middle Ages at historically important venues in Lorca

October 3 to 11 The 10th Lorca Ancient Music Festival The 2023 Ancient Music Festival (MVSAL) in Lorca features 7 concerts which are being held in the first half of October at various venues, all of them of cultural and historical significance in accordance with the rich past of the city.

All of the concerts begin at 20.30 with the full programme as follows:

Tuesday October 3: El Cuarteto presents a selection of medieval music in the Chapel of Santo Domingo, home of the Paso Blanco brotherhood.

Wednesday October 4: Soprano Míriam Silva stars in a summary of the history of the opera from the 16^th to the 18^th century, accompanied by a harpsichord. Venue: the chapel of the Virgen del Alcázar in the Former Collegiate Church of San Patricio.

Thursday October 5: An organ recital on the only 18^th century church organ which still survives in Lorca, that of the church of San Francisco (home to the Paso Azul brotherhood). Playing the organ in Alfonso Sáez, teacher at the Conservatorio Superior in Murcia.

Friday October 6: An evening with Israeli flautist Tamar Lalo, accompanied on the “theorbo”, a kind of lute, by Daniel Zapico. They present a selection of Spanish and Italian music from the 16th, 17th and 18^th centuries in the chapel of the Virgen del Alcázar in the Former Collegiate Church of San Patricio.

Saturday October 7: Concierto Ibérico, featuring Juan González on sackbut and Lea Suter on harpsichord, present Renaissance music from Spain and Italy in the church of San Lázaro.

Tuesday October 10: Totana native Pedro Pérez and Marina López Manzanera on harpsichord present an evening of baroque music by Purcell and Händel in the church of Las Clarisas.

Wednesday October 11: The Renacentista trio, featuring soprano Amber Kay, guitarist and lute player Ignacio Portillo and Antonio del Carmen on the viola da gamba, perform at the Convento de la Virgen de las Huertas.

Tickets for each concert are priced at just 3 euros, to be donated to the Asociación Patrimonio Musical y Amigos de la Música, and are available at the Lorca Escuela Municipal de Música (in Calle Grecia) and the Fondo Cultural Espín (Calle Corredera, 57).

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Oficina de Turismo de Lorca

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The rich and extensive history of Lorca has left a legacy of archaeological sites, and historic buildings, around which the modern City has built its tourism industry. Amongst these are Lorca Castle, the Jewish Quarter of the castle and Synagogue, Lorca Tourist Office Plaza de España, Colegiata de San Patricio, Museo de Arqueologico Municipal, Iglesia de San Francisco, Casa Huerto Ruano, Palacio de Guevara, Iglesia de San Mateo, Pósito de los Panaderos, Convento Virgen de las Huertas, Antiguo Convento de la Merced, Iglesia del Carmen and the Teatro Guerra.

Unfortunately Lorca has also been prone to natural disaster, suffering a Gota Fría on September 28th 2012, as well as an earthquake which measured 5.3 on the Richter scale on 11th May 2011 and claimed 9 lives. Since this earthquake the city has been rebuilding, winning recognition for its Lorca, Open for Restoration initiative, which used the restoration of the city as a tourist attraction whilst it rebuilt its historical buildings, some of which are currently still not open.

Lorca Tourist Office The tourist office itself has temporarily relocated until the renovations are completed and is on Calle San Patricio near the church.

Lorca also has an area of coastline incorporating the Parque Regional de Cabo Cope - Puntas de Calnegre, in the Sierra de Almenara, which includes the beaches of, Puntas de Calnegre, Baño de las Mujeres, San Lorca Tourist Office Pedro, El Siscal, Cala Honda, Cuartel del Ciscar, Junquera, Cala de la Gruta, Cala Leña, Los Hierros, Cala Blanca and Playa Larga, although many are accessible only through agricultural exploitations.

However, in spite of its many attractions, the name of Lorca is synonymous with Easter, (Semana Santa) its biblical parades of International Tourist Interest status and famous throughout Spain. The week includes a Lorca Tourist Office series of parades in which the whites (Paso Blanco) and blues (Paso Azúl) try to outdo each other with the magnificence of their embroideries and the skill and daring of their horsemen.